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With the possibility of greater opportunity in america, the conflicts multiplied enormously. Socialist and trade union activity stimulated many children (men and women) to rebel. [Anzia Yezierska] herself, lived at the socialist Rand School for a while. Yet, in the Breadgivers Yezierska portrays Sara (the character who is supposedly the author) as a woman who first trys to live by america's ideals of the time. The ideals which only mirrored many of jewish women's traditional roles -- being able to earn one's own living (as jewish women had all along) and the reinforcement of the torah which says: only through a man has a woman existence. But it wasn't long before Sara (and Anzia) rejected traditional women's and family roles and declared her life her own. The struggle in the Breadgivers is not an easy one. The ties within the jewish family are strong and not easily broken and although america was far ahead of eastern europe in the economic sense of opportunity, it had little tolerance for women who swayed from their strictly defined roles. In the absence of vital economic need, without new outlets for aggressive energy, the overly-concerned and child-centered woman who has come to be known as the jewish mother developed.